


Title should say,RiDuckless Nuck and Futz Hunt as we tried yet again,encountered dreaded low water at launch BUT we now know from our last low-water escapade dat there are a few DEEP channels dat can be traversed and one in particular paid a nice dividend in the form of fine drake mottled duck,think my second drake in two days(tough to tell who shot yesterday's drake mottled duck,think it was me),I was solo today SO know who shot dis trophy!!!Set out exactly six dekes in nice relaxed pattern so essential for fooling mallards/mottled ducks and did have what appeared to be small flock of scaup wing by,refrained from busting em up and saw HUGE flock of tree ducks,whistling up a storm and I tried the widgeon whistle but dey wanted no part of tiny spread BUT spotted pair of mottled ducks,hit em quick and hard with what I call my ATT call,got em to fly right on top of me lined up bigger of the 2,dropped him like a bad habit and was rather comical watching bunch of feathers take a while to land on pond!!Took my time just in case other ducks might want in and went to retrieve trophy and he was a fine specimen!!!Hard to beat taste of mottled ducks and I got the biggest charge outta fellow(not worth mentioning his name)who knocked me for eating mottled ducks,my God,they are about the most delicious ducks out there akin to mallards and have YET to clean either mallard or mottled duck with even a hint of fish in their guts,guess if dey gets desperate and times are tough they might ingest a few fish and those in the know realize teal ingest TONS of invertebrates like snails and they NEVER taste a tad fishy!!!Clean the gizzards of teal and try to tell me dey do not eat snails!!!
Mandevillian
Mandevillian